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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no s

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon

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To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame. – Captain J. G. Stedman

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To see you naked is to recall the Earth. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. – Gloria Steinem

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Nakedness reveals itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
The nude is condemned to never
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Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Every woman Ive had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when Im at home, I clam up and wont discuss anything intimate or personal. – Jarvis Cocker

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